Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The Voleon Group is a technology company applying artificial intelligence and machine learning to finance and investment management. It is seeking a Technical Manager to lead a Software Platform engineering team responsible for foundational services, initially focusing on developer experience, build systems, CI/CD infrastructure, developer tooling, and deployment automation. The role also owns the domain roadmap, develops engineering talent, and collaborates across engineering, infrastructure, research, and security.
Responsibilities
- Manage, grow, and hire for a team of platform and infrastructure engineers — and mentor ICs to continuously raise the technical bar
- Be hands-on technically — dig into code, debug systems, and work alongside the team to solve hard problems
- Own the roadmap for your domain, define ambitious goals, and reliably deliver against them
- Build and operate the systems that power the software development lifecycle — build systems, CI/CD, developer tooling, deployment automation — with high reliability, observability, and performance
- Improve engineering and researcher productivity by building well-designed platform abstractions, standardizing workflows, and reducing infrastructure friction
- Partner across infrastructure, security, research, and engineering to ensure seamless integration
- As the team grows, potentially expand scope into cloud platform services — including workload routing, resource optimization, and cost governance
Skills
- Computer Science degree or equivalent practical experience
- 2+ years of engineering management experience
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Demonstrated experience managing and mentoring engineering teams
- Proven ability to attract, hire, and retain exceptional engineering talent
- Strong programming experience in Python, Go, C++, or similar
- Experience building or operating developer platforms, cloud infrastructure, or internal platform services — ideally with exposure to both on-prem and cloud environments
- Experience operating critical systems with high reliability requirements
- Knowledge of best practices for scalable system design and operational excellence
- Ability to dive deep technically while maintaining a strategic view of platform architecture
- Strong communication and collaboration skills across engineering and research organizations
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or similar) alongside on-prem systems
- Experience with large monorepos, Bazel or similar build systems
- Experience improving developer productivity at scale
- Experience with CI/CD systems or internal platform engineering
- Experience optimizing cloud resource usage or managing cloud cost efficiency at scale
- Experience leading teams through cloud adoption or infrastructure modernization
Benefits
- Technology talks by our experts
- A beautiful modern office
- Daily catered lunches
- Potential to earn $15,000 if your referred candidate is successfully hired and employed by The Voleon Group, subject to the eligibility, terms and conditions of the Voleon Referral Bonus Program
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